From 17f8346d62b7494ae8bf8e4766a35e2f85104f67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Trochalakis <Chewbaccalakis@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 09:12:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Create dns2omada.sh

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 dns2omada.sh | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 84 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 dns2omada.sh

diff --git a/dns2omada.sh b/dns2omada.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/bash
+
+version=0
+changelog="version=$version, 13-Jun-2024, initial build"
+
+version=2
+changelog="version=$version, 14-Jun-2024, swapped loop from by-subnet to by-omada-clients-mac, saving before and after files in /var/tmp"
+
+
+HELP="
+dns2omada.sh is the most simplistic script ever meant to paliate one of dumbest laziest lack of feature of the tp-link OMADA SDN software....
+it simply populate the OMADA client's name based on DNS name...  everytime the script runs it will keep a copy of the omada clients output
+before and after the script execution in /var/tmp/omadaclients.*.dns2omada
+
+using a python omada api...
+Assumptions:
+- you already have a local DNS server able to perform reverse DNS resolution per IP.
+- you already have omada SDN setup on the network
+- you should create an OMADA admin account dedicated to this process using a very long random password string without any special character
+- my subnet is simply from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.256 so I have a simple loop, you might have to modify the script if your subnet is class B
+with an outer loop etc...
+usage:
+    1) install python: sudo apt install python3-pip
+    2) install the omada python api: pip install tplink-omada-client
+    3) update the parameters CHANGE_ME values in the scipt below
+    4) run the script manually or in cron...    
+"
+
+
+# these should be self-explanatory
+omada_username="CHANGEME_mrpotatoe"
+omada_password="CHANGEME_lfdaruiRWGFD335qw324z"
+omada_site="CHANGEME_homesweethome"
+omada_url="https://CHANGEME_omada.mylocaldomain"
+dns_server=CHANGEME_192.168.0.1
+omadabin=/CHANGEME/bin/omada   # the absolute path to the omada binarie whch gets installed with the client.
+
+
+
+
+if [[ $# -gt 0 ]]
+then
+    echo $HELP
+    exit 3
+fi
+
+if fgrep -v grep $0 | fgrep CHANGEME  >/dev/null
+then
+    echo "ERROR: you forgot to change these varialbes from $0:"
+    fgrep -v grep $0 | fgrep CHANGEME
+    echo "$HELP"
+    exit 4
+fi
+
+$omadabin -t myomada target --url $omada_url --user $omada_username --password $omada_password --site $omada_site --set-default
+omadaclients=/tmp/omadaclients.$$.txt
+$omadabin clients  > $omadaclients
+
+
+cat $omadaclients | while read mac ip name device port junk
+do
+    clientname=""
+    clientmac=$mac
+    #
+    # debugging
+    # echo "parsing mac=$mac ip=$ip name=$name device=$device port=$port junk=$junk"
+
+    if [[ $ip = "" ]] || [[ $ip = "-" ]]
+    then
+        echo "skiping $mac because omada does not have an IP for it"
+    else    
+        clientname=$(nslookup $ip $dns_server 2>/dev/null | fgrep "=" |cut -f2 -d"=" |cut -f1 -d"."|tail -1)
+        if [[ $clientname = ""  ]]
+        then
+            echo "skipping $ip because I cant resolve it"
+        else
+            echo "setting hostname for $ip to $clientname for mac $clientmac "        
+            $omadabin set-client-name $clientmac $clientname            
+        fi
+    fi
+    unset  mac ip name device port junk    
+done
+cat $omadaclients > /var/tmp/omadaclients.before.dns2omada
+$omadabin clients  > /var/tmp/omadaclients.after.dns2omada